21500 miles alone in a canoe
Watson, Don B.
500 Days
Testa, Serge
Admiral of the ocean sea : a life of Christopher Columbus
Morrison, Samuel Eliot.
Adrift
Jones, Tristan
The Adventures of Tintin - The Black Island
Herge
The Adventures of Tintin - The Blue Lotus
Herge
The Adventures of Tintin - The Broken Ear
Herge
The Adventures of Tintin - Cigars of the Pharaoh
Herge
The Adventures of Tintin - The Crab with the Golden Claws
Herge
The Adventures of Tintin - Destination Moon
Herge
The Adventures of Tintin - Explorers on the Moon
Herge
The Adventures of Tintin - King Ottokars Sceptre
Herge
The Adventures of Tintin - The Secret of the Unicorn
Herge
The Adventures of Tintin - The Seven Crystal Balls
Herge
The Adventures of Tintin - The Shooting Star
Herge
The Adventures of Tintin - Tintin in America
Herge
Adventures under sail - selected writings of H.W. Tilman
Lib, Purves - H.W. Tilman
Airlift - Short Stories
Seale, Jan Epton
Aku Aku - the secret of Easter Isaand
Heyerdahl, Thor
Aka (written as fiction)
Jones, Tristan
The Alchemyst - the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel
Scott, Michael
All Fishermen are Liars
Greenlaw, Linda
All in the Same Boat
McCall, Fiona and Howard, Paul
Along the Edge of America
Jenkins, Peter
An American Original: The Life of J. Frank Dobie (1978)
Tinkle, Lon
Arabia - Through the Looking Glass (republished as Arabia, a Journey through the Labyrinth)
Raban, Jonathan
Aransas - a novel
Harrigan, Stephen
Around America - a tour of our magnificent coastline
Cronkite, Walter
At any Cost - Love - Life and Death at Sea
Tangvald, Peter
Arthur Ransome
Hunt, Peter
Arthur Ransome Master Storyteller
Wardale, Roger
Arthur Ransome under sail - Racundra - nancy Blackett - Lottie Blossom - Peter Duck - Selina King - Swallow
Wardale, Roger
Autobiography of Arthur Ransome
Ransome, Arthur
Bachelors of Broken Hill
Upfield, Arthur W.
Bad Land - an American Romance
Raban, Jonathan
Baden-Powell - Founder of the Boy Scouts
Jeal, Tim
Band Saw projects
Crabb, Tom
Beautiful Swimmers - Watermen. Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
Warner, William E.
Big Six
Ransome, Arthur
Big Rich - The rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes
Burrough, Brian
Biggest Boat I could Afford - sailing up the U.S. Coast in a dingy
Hughes, Lee
Bismark and his times
Kent, George O.
Black Joke, the
Mowat, Farley
Blood River a journey to Africas broken heart
Butcher, Tim
Blue Latitudes - Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before
Horwitz, Tony
Boats - Egyptian Bookshelf (series)
Jones, Dilwyn
Bone is Pointed
Upfield, Arthur W.
Boat who wouldnt float
Mowat, Farley
Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Alexander, Caroline
Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (on tape)
Alexander, Caroline
Boy Me and the Cat - Cruise of the Mascot 1912-1913
Plummer, Henry M.
Bring on the Empty Horses
Niven, David
Buehlers Backyard Boatbuilding
Buehler, George
Bushman who Came Back, The
Upfield, Arthur W.
The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer, Geoffrey - - rendered into modern English by Nevill Coghill
Captain Flint's Trunk
Hardymet, Christina
Capt. Joshua Slocum - the adventures of Americas best known sailor
Slocum, Victor
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton - the secret agent who made a pilgrimage to Mecca discovered the Kama Sutra ...
Rice, Edward
Case files of the Tracker - true stories from Americas greatest outdoorsman
Brown Jr., Tom
Catboat Summers
Conway, John E.
Charles de Foucauld - Charles of Jesus
Antier, Jean-Jacques
Chesapeake
Michener, James A.
The Chief - The Life Story of Robert Baden-Powell
Wade, Eileen K.
Chimes from a Wooden Bell - A hundred years in the life of a Euro-Armenian family
Altounyan , Taqui
Christopher Columbus
Granzotto, Gianni
Coasting - A Private Voyage (around Great Britain)
Raban, Jonathan
Complete Cruiser - the art practice and enjoyment of boating
Herreshoff, L. Francis
Cache Lake country - Life in the north woods
Rowlands, John J.
Complete Yurt Handbook
King, Paul
Comrade Don Camillo
Guareschi, Giovanni
Coot Club
Ransome, Arthur
Coronado s children - tales of lost mines and buried treasures of the Southwest
Dobie, J. Frank
Count Lukner - the Sea Devil
Thomas, Lowell
Crooked cucumber : the life and Zen teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
Chadwick, David, 1945-
Cry of the Heron
Allan, Dick
The Crystal Cave
Stewart, Mary
Dear and glorious physician.
Caldwell, Taylor
Desert Queen - The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell - Adventurer Advisor to Kings. Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Wallach, Jan
Designer and Client Eight Boat Design Commissions, from Kayak to Cruiser
Dias, Antonio
Devils Highway - a true story
Urrea, Luis Alberto
Distant Mirror - the calamitous 14th Century
Tuchman, Barbara W.
Dogs Tale, A
Twain, Mark
Don Camillo and his flock
by Guareschi, Giovanni
Don Camillos dilemma
by Guareschi, Giovanni
Don Camillo Meets the Flower Children - a comic novel
by Guareschi, Giovanni
Don Camillo Takes the Devil by the Tail
by Guareschi, Giovanni
Dutch Treat (considered fiction)
Jones, Tristan
Down the Nile - alone in a fishermans skiff
Mahoney, Rosemary
East is a Big Bird - Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll
Gladwin, Thomas-
Elements of Boat Strength - for Builders. Designers and Owners
Gerr, Dave
Elizabeth Blackburn and the story of telomeres - deciphering the ends of DNA
Brady, Catherine.
Encounters of a Wayward Sailor
Jones, Tristan
Fearful Void
Moorhouse, Geoffrey
Erasmus of Christendom
Bainton, Roland
Facing the Congo - a modern-day journey into the heart of darkness
Taylor, Jeffrey
Fair Winds and Far Places
Mann, Zane B.
The Family Guareschi - Chronciles of the Past and Present.
Guareschi, Giovanni
Fishermans Bend - a Jane Bunker mystery
Greenlaw, Linda
First voyage of the Joshua
Moitessier, Bernard
Floating Down the Country - a 79 day adventure down the Mississippi ..to New Orleans
Mohlke, Matthew
Freakonomics - a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Levitt, Steven D. and Dubner, Steven J.
Good Little Ship - The
Gilpin, Vincent
Gorky Park
Smith , Martin Cruz
Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
Great Northern
Ransome, Arthur
Guns of August (the first 100 days of WWI)
Tuchman, Barbara W.
The Happy Isles of Oceania
Therouox, Paul
Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage, stories
Munro, Alice
Havanna Bay
Smith, Martin Cruz
Heart of Oak (certainly fiction as far as Jones participation)
Jones, Tristan
The Hobbit
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hollow Hills
Stewart, Mary
The House that Nino Built
Guareschi, Giovanni
How to Avoid Huge Ships or I never met a ship I liked
by Trimmer, John W.
How to build a Tin Canoe - Confessions of an Old Salt
White, Robb
The Hull the Sail and the Rudder - my search for the boundries of the body mind and soul
Seale, Avrel
The Hungry Ocean - a swordboat captain’s journey
Greenlaw, Linda
Hunter
Hunter, John A.
Iacocca an autobiography
Iacocca, Lee
Ice (considered totally fiction)
Jones, Tristan
Improbable voyage
Jones, Tristan
In Search of Omar Khayyam
Dashti, Ali
In Search of Robinson Crusoe
Sverin, Tim
In Trouble Again - A journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
OHanlon, Redmond
In the footsteps of the Swallows and Amazons - 19 illustrated walks
Kendall-Price, Claire
Incredible Voyage
Jones, Tristan
Indian Ocean
Villiers, Alan J
Indian Tipi - its history, construction and use
Laubin, Reginald & Gladys
Into the Heart of Borneo
OHanlon, Redmond
Islands at the Edge of Time - A Journey to Americas Barrier Islands
Hansen, Gunnar
Its Me O Lord - the autobiography of Rockwell Kent
Kent, Rockwell
John Paul Jones - a sailors biography
Morrison, Samuel Eliot
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Bach, Richard
Joshua Slocum (Capt.) - the adventures of Americas best known sailor
Slocum, Victor
The Journals of the Constant Waterman
Goldman, Matthew
Kingdom by the sea - A Journey around the Coast of Great Britain
Theroux, Paul
Kon Tiki expedition
Heyerdahl, Thor
Kurun around the world
Le Tourmelin, Jacques-Yves
Laguna
Putegnat, Michael
Last Englishman - the double life of Arthur Ransome
Chambers, Roland
Legends of the Fall (also Revenge - also The Man who gave up his name - bound in 1 book)
Harrison, Jim
The Life of Arthur Ransome
Brogan, Hugh
A Life of Mark Twain
Powers, Ron
Life on Matagorda Island
McAlister, Wayne H.
Little World of Don Camillo
Guareschi, Giovanni
Longhorns
Dobie, J. Frank
Lo-Tech Navigator, The
Crowley, Tony
The Lobster Chronicles - life on a very small island
Greenlaw, Linda
Long Valley, the
Steinbeck, John
Looking for a Ship
McPhee, John
Lord of the Flies
Golding, William
The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Lore of the Wreckers
Shepard, Birse
The Lost History of Christianity - The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia - and how it died
Jenkins, Philip - - ( John P. Jenkins )
Lugworm Island Hopping
Duxbury, Ken
Lugworm Homeward Bound - Greece to England in an Open Dingy
Duxbury, Ken
Lure of the Bush
Upfield, Arthur W.
Magic Journey (1978)
Nichols, John T.
Magician (the) - the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel (vol. 2 of this series)
Scott, Michael
Maldive Mystery
Heyerdahl, Thor
Man of Two Tribes
Upfield, Arthur W.
Man Who Thought Like a Ship
Steffy, Loren C.
Marching Wind ( China )
Clark, Leonard (Leonard Francis)
Mayordomo - chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico
Crawford, Stanley
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch
Milagro Beanfield War
Nichols, John
Missee Lee
Ransome, Arthur
Moby Duck - The True Story of 28,000 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Enviornmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
Hohn, Donovan.
The Making of the African Queen or how I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
Hepburn, Katharine
Moon Wind at Large - Sailing Hither and Yon
Goldman, Matthew - the Constant Waterman
Murder Must Wait
Upfield, Arthur W.
My Home Sweet Home - translation of Corrierno delle Famiglie
Guareschi, Giovanni
My old man and the sea a father and son sail around Cape Horn
Hayes, David and Daniel
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage - (The first adventure of the five finder-outers and Buster their dog)
by Blyton, Enid
Nancy Blackett - under sail with Arthur Ransome
Wardale, Roger
Nature of Boats
Gerr, Dave
Niccolo Rising (first in the House of Nicolo series)
Dunnet, Dorothy
Nirvana Blues (1981)
Nichols, John T.
No Footprints in the Bush (also published as Bushranger of the Skies)
Upfield, Arthur W.
No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
OHanlon, Redmond
Not All Plain Sailing
Sinnett-Jones, David
Oar and Sail - an odyssey of the west coast
Leighton, Kenneth M.
Old Glory - A Voyage Down the Mississippi
Raban, Jonathan
Old Soggy no. 1 the uninhibited story of Slats Rogers
Rodgers, Slats. and Stilwell, Hart
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Twain, Mark
On the Water - Discovering America in a Rowboat
Stone, Nathaniel
One hand for yourself One for the Ship - The essential Tristan Jones
Jones, Tristan
Our Oldest Enemy - a history of Americas disasterous relationship with France
Miller, John J. and Molesky, Mark
Outward Leg (sailing a trimaran from San Diego USA to London UK
Jones, Tristan
Padre Puzzle, The - a mystery novel
Harry, David
Passage to Juneau - a sea and its meanings
Raban, Jonathan
Passion for Life - Adventure against the odds
Sinnett-Jones, David
Perfect Storm, The
Junger, Sebastian
Peter Duck
Ransome, Arthur
Picts and the Martyrs
Ransome, Arthur
Pigeon Post
Ransome, Arthur
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dillard, Annie
Polar Star
Smith, Martin Cruz
Portolan Atlas of the Mediterranean Sea and Western European Waters (with a World Map)
Oliva, Juan (attributed) pub. by Library of Congress
Poso del mundo; inside the Mexican-American border, from Tijuana to Matamoros
by Demaris, Ovid
Practical Dinghy Cruiser
Constantine, Paul
The Prince of the Marshes and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq
Stewart, Rory
Prisoner of the Indies - the adventures of Miles Philips as told by Geoffrey Household
by Household, Geoffrey
Professor and the madman - A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Winchester, Simon
The Ra Expeditions
Heyerdahl, Thor
Ransome Revisited
Mace, Elisabeth
Revelation of the Magi - the lost tale of the Wise Mens Journey to Bethlehem
translated by Landau, Brent
The Revenge of Geography - what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
Kaplan, Robert D.
Richard Haliburtons Complete Book of Marvels
Halliburton, Richard
River of Doubt - Theodore Roosevelts darkest journey
Millard, Candice
The Rivers Amazon
Shoumatoff, Alex
Rod and Line
Ransome, Arthur
The Ropemakers of Plymouth - a history of the Plymouth Cordage Company 1824-1949
Morison, Samuel Eliot 1887-1976
Rough Medicine - Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
Druett, Joan
Saga of a Wayward Sailor
Jones, Tristan
Sahara Unveiled - a journey across the desert
Langewiesche, William
Sailing Alone Around the World
Slocum, Joshua
Sailing back in Time A nostalgic voyage on Canadas west coast
Coffey, Maria and Dag Goering
The Saint Intervenes
Charteris, Leslie
The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace
Charteris, Leslie - Short, Christopher (actual author)
The Salt Stained Book (Strong Winds series no.1)
Jones, Julia
Salvage for the Saint
Charteris, Leslie - Peter Blossom and John Kruse (actual collaborative authors)
Scouting with Baden-Powell
Freedman, Russell
Scouts honor - a fathers unlikely foray into the woods
Applebome, Peter
Sea Vagabonds world - boats and sails distant shores islands and lagoons
Moitessier, Bernard
Seagulls in my soup
Jones, Tristan
Seaworthy - Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
Pearson, T. R.
Seaworthy - a swordboat captain returns to the sea
Greenlaw, Linda
The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
Knightly, Philip and Simpson, Colin
Secret Water
Ransome, Arthur
Selkirks Island
Souhami, Diana
Serpants Coil - A stunning true epic of storm and salvage in Mid Atlantic
Mowat, Farley
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Lawrence, T. E. (1888 - 1935)
The Shack - a novel
Young, William Paul
Shackletons Boat Journey
Worsley, Frank Arthur
She Captains - Heroines and hellions of the Sea
Druett, Joan
Silver Chalice: A Story of the Cup of the Last Supper
Costain, Thomas B.
Simple Courage - A true story of peril on the sea
Delaney, Frank
Six Galleons For The King Of Spain
Rahn Phillips, Carla
Skeletons on the Zahara - A True Story of Survival
King, Dean
Slipknot
Greenlaw, Linda
Slipping into Paradise - why I live in New Zealand
Moussaieff Masson, Jeffrey
So Noble a Captain - the Life and Times of Ferdinand Magellan
Parr, Charles McKew
Some Part of Myself
Dobie, J. Frank
Somewheres East of Suez
Jones, Tristan
Song for Satawal
Brower, Kenneth
Sons of Sinbad; an account of sailing with the Arabs in their dhows, in the Red Sea, around the coasts of
Arabia, and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika: pearling in the Persian gulf: and the life of the shipmasters, the
mariners, and merchants of Kuwait, by Alan Villiers illustrated with photographs and charts by the author.
Villiers, Alan J.
Soundings - the story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor (Marie Tharp)
Felt, Hali
South - the story of Shackletons last expedition 1914-1917 - a memoir of the Endurance voyage
Shackleton, Sir Ernest
Spains Men of the Sea - Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century
by Perez-Mallaina, Pablo E. - - - translated by Carla Rahn Phillips
Spanish Sea - The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery 1500 - 1685
Weddle, Robert S.
Speedwell Voyage - A tale of piracy and mutiny in the eighteenth century
Poolman, Kenneth
Spooky Wisconsin - Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and other Local Lore
Schlosser, S. E.
St. Augustine
Wills, Gary
Stalin's Ghost - an Arkady Renko novel by Smith, Martin Cruz
Star to Steer Her by (same as Outward Leg)
Jones, Tristan
Steady Trade (considered as fiction)
Jones, Tristan
Steaming to Bamboola - The World of a Tramp Freighter
Buckley, Christopher
Swallowdale
Ransome, Arthur
Swallows and Amazons
Ransom, Arthur
Tamata and the alliance
Moitessier, Bernard
The Tecate Journals - seventy days on the Rio Grande
Bowden, Keith
This Thing of Darkness (about Fitzroy, Darwin and the Beagle)
Thompson, Harry
Three Years in a Twelve-Foot Boat
Ladd, Stephen
Tintin => see => Adventures of Tintin
Tipis Tepees Teepees - history and design of the cloth tipi
Holley, Linda A.
Tongues of the Monte
Dobie, J. Frank
Tough Cookie
Davidson, Diane Mott
Treasure of Kahn
Cussler, Clive with Dirk Cussler
Valley of Smugglers
Upfield, Arthur W.
Voyage to Jamestown Practical Navigation in the Age of Discovery
Hicks, Robert D.
To venture further
Jones, Tristan
Torn Branch, The
Upfield, Arthur W.
Tracker - The
Brown Jr., Tom
Trawler
OHanlon, Redmond
Uffa Fox a Personal Biography
by Dixon, June
Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow - a Mirror odyssey from N. Wales to Black Sea
Mackinnon, A. J.
Vatican, The
Martin, Malachi
Viking Gods
Haworth-Maden, Clare. editor
Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to Brazil
Slocum , Joshua
Voyage of the Liberdade
Slocum, Joshua
Voyaging - Southward from the Strait of Magellan
Kent, Rockwell
Voyages to paradise. exploring in the wake of Captain Cook
by Gray, William R.
Waterbiography (orig. pub in 1894)
Leslie, Robert C.
Wayward Sailor - in search of the real Tristan Jones
Dalton, Anthony
We didn t mean to go to sea
Ransome, Arthur
West in my eyes; a domestic circumnavigation
Wiele, Annie van de
Westviking the ancient Norse in Greenland and North America
Mowat, Farley
Where have all the leaders gone ?
Iacocca, Lee
Where it all began Brownsea August 1907 - The First Experimental Scout Camp
Sica, Mario
White Squall - the Last Voyage of Albatross
Langford, Richard E.
White Savage, The
Upfield, Arthur W.
Why a son needs a dad
Lang, Gregory E.
Window on my Heart - the autobiography of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, G.B.E. as told to Mary Drewery
Baden-Powell St,Clair (Soames), Olave
Winter Holiday
Ransome, Arthur
Winter in Fireland - a Patagonian Sailing Adventure
Coghlan, Nicholas
With Lawrence in Arabia New enlarged edition
Thomas, Lowell
World lit only by fire -The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of of an Age
Manchester, William
Worlds of Christopher Columbus
William D. Phillips - - Carla Rahn Phillips
Young Crusoe -
Hofland, Barbara - 1770-1844
Zimmermann Telegram - The astounding historic espionage operation that propelled America into World War 1
Tuchman, Barbara W.
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